Mitchell v. State

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2016 Ark. 365

SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS. No. CR-16-190 BOBBY JOE MITCHELL Opinion Delivered October 27, 2016 APPELLANT PRO SE APPEAL FROM THE ASHLEY V. COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT [NO. 02CR-69-4717] STATE OF ARKANSAS APPELLEE HONORABLE SAM POPE, JUDGE AFFIRMED. PER CURIAM In 1969, appellant Bobby Joe Mitchell entered a plea of guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced by a jury to life imprisonment. No appeal was taken. On March 24, 1975, Mitchell filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 1, which was Arkansas’s postconviction…